Elif Incekara Hafalir
Address:
243 Posner Hall, Tepper School of Business
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Citizenship:
Turkish (US permanent resident)
Telephone:
E-mail:
(412) 268-5608
incekara@cmu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, August 2010-August 2013
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, August 2007-August 2010
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
EDUCATION:
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Ph.D., Economics, Penn State University, June 2007
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2001
FIELDS:
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Primary: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Micro Theory.
Secondary: Game Theory, Industrial Organization
PAPERS:
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“The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment,” with George
Loewenstein, 2009.
“Credit Card Competition and Naïve Hyperbolic Consumers,” 2009.
“Time Inconsistency of Consumers and Excessive Upgrades in Software Market,”
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“Helping People to Exercise Regularly,” with Jeremy Tobacman and Erte Xiao.
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Tepper School of Business (Microeconomics, Advanced Microeconomic Theory)
Penn State University (Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics)
Teaching Assistant at Penn State University (Principles of Microeconomics,
Intermediate Microeconomics)
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Carnegie Mellon University -SDS, October 2009
Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, Spring 2009
Carnegie Mellon University -Tepper School, October 2008
Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, July 2008
University of Melbourne, May 2008
ESA North American Meetings, October 2007
Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, Spring 2007
Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice Conference II, Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston, July 2006
Society for Economic Design, July 2006
8th Int’l Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, July 2006
16th International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook, July 2005
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Center for Behavioral Decision Research Grants Program, Spring 2008
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